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A pretty slow start that really picked up and was quite good by the end. I'm a sucker for a "good for her" story. The characters were overall interesting and although not all of them were likeable, their personalities and stories def kept my interest. I'm also always a sucker for some corvids so having crows or ravens or magpies in a story makes me happy.
Not my favorite from the author, but I did like it.

A nice, light read/listen. I def could relate with the main character when she went to Japan and felt out of place. 

This one broke my heart a little bit. I love this author's writing and I am committed to reading through their back titles.
Please read content/trigger warnings.

Not the author's best for me. Not super memorable for me either.

This was pretty good. A little slow at first but picks up nicely. Good amount of horror (especially body horror). Love to see gay conversation camps get dismantled and bigots getting their due.
Look at trigger/content warnings beforehand! Nothing too too graphic but def could be hard to read.
Would def check out more from the author.

I've read a lot of Greek myth retellings, and even a couple minotaur retellings now, and this one was solid enough. I read other reviews saying how terrible the characters were, but if you're already familiar with the story of the minotaur and other stories with some of these characters, this portrayal was pretty accurate to the original myth with an expansion of Ariadne and Asterion (and to a lesser extent Icarus and Ariadne's sister Acalle although I wish we got a little more of the sisters). Minos is supposed to be unlikeable, selfish, and just generally a disgusting human and he was portrayed accurately in this. I was fine with Thesius being underdeveloped since he is portrayed so greatly/highly in the original myths, and him taking a back seat in the character development side was kind of nice. In the other retelling Thesius was a total ass (which was refreshing because the heroes of the original myths could not have been these perfect beings considering how the gods were, and I believe a lot of the "villains" in these og myths were not truly bad, but maybe all the feminist retellings have something to do with my changed beliefs😂) so I was low-key glad he wasn't in this one. I appreciate that Thesius wasn't some perfect being but wasn't a garbage person either and did end up helping Ariadne as much as she helped him.
Also saw criticism of the "instalove" but like...that's also pretty accurate to how the original myths are so I don't have much complaint with that.
 I really enjoyed the humanizing of the Minotaur/Asterion in this retelling and another I have read. 
I do agree with others on the pacing being a little off. It is sort of slow in the beginning and then all the active action happens all at the end.
But I think Greek myths meeting reality show is a great concept and honestly surprised it took this long for a book to be written about it. Would enjoy more like it tbh with the focus remaining on the female characters of these myths.

I'm still thoroughly enjoying reading this series. It's cringe, but I'm having a great time. Inner child me is having a great time too. Were there some... questionable things (like the imprinting)? yes. Did that stop me reading? No

Didn't hate it didn't love it. Quick read. Premise was interesting, characters were so-so.
I've realized this author can be hit or miss for me.

A fast but tough read about the author's experience with an abusive partner. Read trigger warnings. 
The writing is so well done and this is the second book I've read from the author.

Pretty fast paced and was pretty good. The characters were not my favorites but overall the story was good. Kept me guessing on who the big bad was.